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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Maids and mistresses, cousins and queens. New York : Oxford University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98003448 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Susan Frye; Karen Robertson |
ISBN: | 1423759850 9781423759850 1602562393 9781602562394 1280470437 9781280470431 0195353595 9780195353594 9786610470433 661047043X |
OCLC Number: | 252568724 |
Language Note: | English. |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 350 pages) |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | Maidservants of London : sisterhoods of kinship and labor / Ann Rosalind Jones -- Women, work, and plays in an English medieval town / Mary Wack -- Women's networks and the female vagrant : a hard case / Jodi Mikalachki -- "No good thing ever comes out of it" : male expectation and female alliance in Dekker and Webster's Westward ho / Simon Morgan-Russell -- "P[ar]cell of murdereing bitches" : female relationships in an eighteenth-century slaveholding household / Kathleen M. Brown -- Appropriation of pleasure in The magnetic lady / Helen Ostovich -- Female alliance and the construction of homoeroticism in As you like it and Twelfth night / Jessica Tvordi -- "Companion me with my mistress" : Cleopatra, Elizabeth I, and their waiting women / Elizabeth A. Brown -- Tracing women's connections from a letter by Elizabeth Ralegh / Karen Robertson -- Sewing connections : Elizabeth Tudor, Mary Stuart, Elizabeth Talbot, and seventeenth-century anonymous needleworkers / Susan Frye -- "Faire Eliza's Chaine" : two female writers' literary links to Queen Elizabeth I / Lisa Gim -- Mary Ward's "Jesuitresses" and the construction of a typological community / Lowell Gallagher -- Dearth of the author : anonymity's allies and Swetnam the woman-hater / Valerie Wayne -- Erotics of female friendship in early modern England / Harriette Andreadis -- Alliance and exile : Aphra Behn's racial identity / Margo Hendricks -- Aemilia Lanyer and the invention of white womanhood / Barbara Bowen. |
Responsibility: | edited by Susan Frye, Karen Robertson. |
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This book represents a valuable collection of studies on early modern women's collectives both real and imagined. * Sixteenth Century Journal * An exciting edition to the burgeoning field of collection of essays in this area. * Years Work in English Studies * Occasionally one comes across a well-written and carefully argued interpretation of Shakespeare's drama that prompts a major reconsideration of the evidence. Jessica Tvordi's 'Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night' in Frye and Robertson, eds., Maids and Mistresses is one such article ... this essay remains a must-read for anyone interested in the circulation of sexual desire inShakespeare's comedies. * Years Work in English Studies * Read more...


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- Women -- England -- History.
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- Female friendship.
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- Women and literature.
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- England.
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- Englisch.
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